bzip2¶

Description¶

bzip2 is a freely available, patent free (see below), high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression. Modules system sets up the following environment variables for this module:

Environment Modules¶

Run module spider bzip2 to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables¶

HPC_BZIP2_DIR - installation directory
HPC_BZIP2_BIN - executable directory
HPC_BZIP2_LIB - library directory

Categories¶

utility, library